“"Students are drinking significantly larger
quantities of alcohol in single settings, in ways
that I don't think were probably as pervasive, or
certainly not recognized, even a generation of
students ago"”

“Even though she and her friends
enjoyed drinking socially at fraternity houses and
bars like the Shack and the Tavern, South said the
alcohol culture in the late 1960s wasn’t so centered
on drinking to get outrageously drunk.”

Student view—“Unsurprisingly, fraternity parties and
bars become active sites of gender performance.
These locations are places where one can act out his
masculinity — where one’s body becomes a “tank” that
can take the bludgeons of several shots of tequila,
pound back as many beers as possible and still
flaunt whatever inkling of sobriety one has
remaining.”

“The Alpha-Alpha Chapter of Chi Phi issued a
statement this week confirming that it has been
suspended from campus for alleged violations
including alcohol use and inappropriate activities
with new initiates.”

“For instance, she said, students are asked about
high-risk or "binge" drinking, which is defined as
having five or more drinks in a sitting. In fall
2012, 45 percent of students said yes to that
question, compared to a high of 62 percent in fall
2005. "So we've seen a steady decline in that over
time."”

“Activists contend that colleges fall short in
educating students about sexual assault, encouraging
victims to seek help, counseling survivors,
reporting the frequency of such crimes, and training
the people who investigate and adjudicate cases.”

Student article questioning the merits of guns on
campuses: “Consider the levels of alcohol and drug
abuse among college students. If a drunk or high
student brandishes a weapon anywhere on campus, even
if it is only as a joke, would the victim being
armed really change anything?”

“Silence from town and university leaders is no
longer an option. How many more students must be
lost to alcohol by premature death, injury, damaged
health or dependency, before we make a community
effort to find a solution?”

Trustees evaluating "Whether or not we think that
we're being the right stewards of our incoming
freshmen by allowing them to participate in that
system their first semester or should they wait till
their second semester,"

Recent Alcohol-Related
Tragedies involving University of North Carolina Students

Courtland Benjamin Smith, August 22, 2009,
University of North Carolina